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Cambodia PM backtracks on threat to ban Facebook amid content row

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, centre, poses for selfies with supporters of his ruling Cambodian People's Party at an election campaign rally in Phnom Penh in 2017 [File: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP]

Would Cambodia’s strongman ruler Hun Sen follow through on a threat to block access to Facebook for his country’s millions of users?

That was the question many asked in the nation of 17 million people on Friday when the prime minister began his day threatening to ban the social media platform, but then walked back his warning in a late-night statement.

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